EU Council adopts Ursula von der Leyen’s list of EU Commission candidates

Brussels, 19 September 2024, 21:50

The EU Council today adopted, by common accord with the President-elect of the Commission, the list of persons whom it proposes for appointment as members of the Commission until 31 October 2029.

The list of persons that the Council proposes as members of the Commission is the following:

• Mr Magnus BRUNNER (Austria)
• Ms Maria Luís CASANOVA MORGADO DIAS DE ALBUQUERQUE (Portugal)
• Mr Valdis DOMBROVSKIS (Latvia)
• Mr Raffaele FITTO (Italy)
• Mr Christophe HANSEN (Luxembourg)
• Mr Wopke Bastiaan HOEKSTRA (Netherlands)
• Mr Dan JØRGENSEN (Denmark)
• Mr Constantinos KADIS (Cyprus)
• Ms Marta KOS (Slovenia)
• Mr Andrius KUBILIUS (Lithuania)
• Ms Hadja LAHBIB (Belgium)
• Mr Michael MCGRATH (Ireland)
• Mr Glenn MICALLEF (Malta)
• Ms Roxana MÎNZATU (Romania)
• Ms Teresa RIBERA RODRÍGUEZ (Spain)
• Ms Jessika ROSWALL (Sweden)
• Mr Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ (Slovakia)
• Mr Stéphane SÉJOURNÉ (France)
• Mr Piotr Arkadiusz SERAFIN (Poland)
• Mr Jozef SÍKELA (Czechia)
• Ms Ekaterina SPASOVA GECHEVA-ZAHARIEVA (Bulgaria)
• Ms Dubravka ŠUICA (Croatia)
• Mr Apostolos TZITZIKOSTAS (Greece)
• Mr Olivér VÁRHELYI (Hungary)
• Ms Henna Maria VIRKKUNEN (Finland)

in addition to:

• Ms Kaja KALLAS (Estonia), appointed High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on 24 July 2024 by the European Council, with the agreement of the President-elect of the Commission.

The decision will now be forwarded to the European Parliament and published in the Official Journal of the EU.

Background

Under Article 17(7) of the Treaty on European Union, the Council, by common accord with the President-elect of the Commission, adopts the list of the persons whom it proposes for appointment as members of the Commission.

The President of the Commission, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the other members of the Commission are subject as a body to a vote of consent by the European Parliament. On the basis of this consent the Commission is appointed by the European Council, acting by a qualified majority.

Council decision, taken by common accord with the President-elect of the Commission, adopting the list of the other persons whom the Council proposes for appointment as Members of the Commission.

Source – EU Council